Shutdown: Is history repeating itself?

12:37 AM,
Nov. 3, 2013

Written by

Jack Burgess

We were treated to a sad sight recently, as right-wing Republicans rallied in Washington, D.C., against the president and the laws he has passed.

Demonstrations are a measure of free speech, but this one featured a level of anger seldom seen and strange, ridiculous charges against the man in the White House. He was called a Muslim and told to get up off his knees, lay down his Quran, come out with his hands up, and resign.

And he could look out the windows of his White House home and see what Abraham Lincoln never had to see there: the Confederate flag of rebellion waving freely. That on top of being ...